![]() ![]() Writer-director Timothy Forder does a workmanlike job of compressing the existing manuscript but misses out on the noir-ish atmosphere that fuels Dickens’ original. Jasper throws suspicion on Neville and later declares his love to a horrified Rosa.Īfter trying to fake Neville’s suicide, Jasper is caught by the canon (Peter Pacey), who’s surmised that he’s the real murderer. ![]() One dark and stormy night, Drood disappears. When one of the local canon’s lodgers, Neville (Rupert Rainsford), gets the hots for Rosa, Jasper secretly encourages him. Story is set in a fictional English village, Cloisterham, where Jasper (Powell) is the local choir master, obsessively in love with the pert Rosa (Finty Williams), fiancee of his visiting nephew, Drood (Jonathan Phillips). ![]()
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